As I sat on the grass in the beautiful weather this Monday with one dozen UT Dallas students – praising Him for all He has done for us, asking for His kingdom to come and His will to be done...

I’m one of those people who sees a life lesson in a lot of different things, and movies are definitely one of them.  A favorite of late has been the Avengers. It’s great, I love the plot, the script, just...

I recently moved to a college town in the Northeast that is full of intellectuals and hippies. These are my people. I get weirdly giddy around free spirits and the bookish. I may have lived most of my life around...

Karen was a wealth of information.  It was only my second day on the job, and she was exactly the person I wanted to talk to.  She had been the director of KU’s chapter of a national student ministry organization...

What would you do if you lived in a country where children are taken from their family, husbands are murdered and the wives raped?  What would you do if you lived in a region where up to 9 out of...

Competition versus relationship Perhaps you’ve observed this trend on your campus as well … the majority of campus ministry leaders on the Colorado State University (CSU) campus agree that there is oftentimes a bit of competition amongst Christian student groups....

There is a whole lot of discussion right now about how to tell if Christians are in fact Christians. The alternative is I guess that they would be people who profess Christ, but are deceived. If you’ve read my posts...

The thing about coffee is that you need to know how to pick the beans.  Damage the stem and you kill the plant.  That’s what my wife, Johanna, tells me with grave sobriety.  It was a lesson seared into her...

The War Between the Sexes The “war between the sexes” is a common motif, idea, and joke amongst both Christian and non-Christian circles. Think of all the classic episodes of your favorite sitcoms that put the men vs. the women...

Recently at a conference I was attending, I had a conversation with a worship pastor from another church where he insisted: “Sundays are for the saints.” I asked if it was important for those leading in different church communities to...